A group of diverse Columbia residents who believe that the Columbia Association Board of Directors no longer represents the values of our city or the founding values of Columbia. We want to ensure that younger, newer, and more diverse individuals have a voice in Columbia.

Our Current Project:

The current representatives to the CA Board from five Columbia Villages have a demonstrated record of votes and behavior that indicates their lack of support for Lakey Boyd, their lack of understanding of their roles as a board members, and their history of unethical, misogynistic, and/or dismissive behavior toward residents and staff.

The CA Board (especially these 5 individuals) has made it very clear that they are not listening to the dozens of people who have attended Resident Speakout in recent months nor do they care about the 879 signatures added to the petition presented to the CA Board earlier this Fall. So now it's up to residents to hold their village representatives accountable for their dismissive, fiscally irresponsible, and unethical actions. Each village representative to the CA Board can be removed from that post by a simple majority vote of their Village Board.  We must put pressure on our elected village representatives to listen to their neighbors and DO THE RIGHT THING!

Why should you care? We're glad you asked! Here are the highlights:

• The board has hired outside counsel to advise them on how to fire the President/CEO. They have already spent over $42,000 and have recently expanded the scope of work with the outside attorney.*
• They refused to allow the President/CEO to appeal her performance review and allowed their attorney to engage in intimidating behavior** when Ms. Boyd refused to participate in a meeting without counsel present.
• The board has held at least 9 closed meetings to discuss the President/CEO, most of which were not announced at the next open meeting per Maryland HOA law.*

Here's a list of articles that outline the appalling behavior of the CA Board in recent months and provide some context for this recall effort:

• *https://www.themerriweatherpost.org/post/disclosure-of-previously-unannounced-closed-ca-board-of-directors-meetings
• https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/local-news/columbia-association-ceo-howard-county-JQ3AZW7IGBBF7NCUYSKZRHXJHY/
• https://www.themerriweatherpost.org/post/perspective-on-leadership-conflict-at-columbia-association
• https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/howard/cng-ho-columbia-association-petition-lakey-boyd-20221202-ddwidtdpj5alji6fq63wrhbv6e-story.html (may only be available to Baltimore Sun subscribers - sorry!)
• **https://baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/columbia-association-ceo-denied-request-to-challenge-her-evaluation-as-board-maintains-silence/
• https://baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/columbia-coup-update-paying-whatever-it-takes-to-oust-a-ceo/
• https://www.themerriweatherpost.org/post/the-outpouring-of-community-support-for-columbia-association-president-ceo-lakey-boyd
• https://www.themerriweatherpost.org/post/how-poor-judgement-ego-and-miscommunication-have-led-the-ca-board-to-consider-firing-ca-president
• https://baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/a-coup-in-columbia-a-dynamic-leader-faces-a-disgruntled-board-in-marylands-second-city/

Thank you for your support!